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H. l.. DAU'GHERTY.

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APPLICATIQN FILED FEB. 1,7, lazo.

1,384,242. y Patented July 12, 1921.

Cutoznuj HARRY L. DAUGHERTY, OF CARSON CITY, NEVADA..

BIT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented JulyT 12, 1921.

Application led February 17, 1920. Serial No. 359,371.

To all @07mm t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HARRY L. DAUGHERTY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Carson City, in the county of Ormsby and State of Nevada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bits, of which the following is a specification. f T

My invention is an improvement in bits, and has for its object to provide a bit especially adapted for riding bridles, and wherein a bit bar is provided with a curb, and cheek pieces in the form of .plates extending above and below the bit bar, each piece having an opening at its top, and a tongue hinged to move `transversely of the opening to form with the cheek piece a buckle, each cheek piece having a rosette forming a keeper below the opening.

In the drawings z- Figure l is a perspective view of the improved bit.

F ig. 2 is an enlarged section on the line 2 2 of Fig. l.

In the present embodiment of the invention the improved bit comprises cheek plates l, which are shaped like the lower leg, being arranged with the foot portion downward and the broadest portion of the cheek pieces are connected by a bit bar 2, which is pro* vided intermediate its ends and at its center with a laterally offset portion 3 forming a curb. The foot portions of the cheek pieces are connected by a cross bar 4, the said 'cross bar being a strip of metal having its ends bent laterally as indicated at 5, and secured to cheek pieces in any suitable or desired manner.

On the outer face ofeach cheek piece and at the end of the bit bar, there is a rosette 6, the rosettes being formed in the present y instance by hollow spherical segments which have their edges abutted against the cheek pieces and secured thereto in any Suitable Y Vl?) arranged in a series manner as for instance by brazing'or soldering.

At its top and bottom the edges of the rosette are out away as shown at 7 for a purpose to be presently described, and each cheek piece has at its top a circular opening 8 extending transversely of the cheek piece. A tongue 9 is pivoted at its o ening to extend diametrically thereof, on t e outer face of the cheek piece. Each tongue has an eye l0, which is bent through an opening l1 in the cheek piece below the opening 8, the arrangement being `such that the tongue will freely swing toward the rosette.

g The cheek strap of thebridle 12 passes through this circular opening 8, and through the notches or recesses 7l in the rosette the said rosette forming a keeper for the end of the strap, and the said strap has openings extending longitudinally thereof, for engagement by the tongue the cheek pieces and the tongue cooperating to provide a buckle.

I claim A bitcomprising flat longitudinal curved cheek plates having their intermediate portions enlarged laterally, a bit bar connected to the enlarged intermediate portions oi said l flat cheek plates, the upper portions of said plates having strap receiving openings, strap fastening tonguescontacting with the outer sides of said Hat plates above said openings and having loops passed through said plates beneath said openings, and sphere shaped rosettes attached to the outer sides of said plates at the ends of said bit bar and having spaced upper `and lower alined strap receiving openings defining spaced keeper means for the straps,-said rosettes being' directly beneath said strap receiving openings and of a diameter less than the width of the enlarged intermediate portions of said cheek plates.

' HARRY L. DAUGHERTY. 

